Course No: AS-HORT 121 Title: Principles of Horticultural Crops and
Plant Protection
Semester: II Credit: 2(1+1)
Syllabus
Theory
Scope of horticultural. Soil and climatic requirements for fruits, vegetables and floriculture
crops, improved varieties, Criteria for site selection, layout and planting methods, nursery
raising, commercial varieties/hybrids, sowing and planting times and methods, seed rate and seed
treatment for vegetable crops; macro and micro propagation methods, plant growing structures,
pruning and training, crop coefficients, water requirements and critical stages, fertilizer
application, fertigation, irrigation methods, harvesting, grading and packaging, post harvest
practices, Garden tools, management of orchard, Extraction and storage of vegetables seeds.
Major pests and diseases and their management in horticulture crops.
Practical
Judging maturity time for harvesting of crop; Study of seed viability and germination test;
Identification and description of important fruits, flowers and vegetable crops; Study of different
garden tools; Preparation of nursery bed; Practices of pruning and training in some important
fruit crops, visit to commercial greenhouse/ polyhouse; cultural operations for vegetable crops
(sowing, fertilizer application, mulching, irrigation and weed control); seed extraction
techniques; identification of important pests and diseases and their control.
Teaching Schedule – Theory with weightages %
Lecture Weightages
Particulars
No. (%)
1 Scope of Horticultural crops. 05
2 Soil and climatic requirements for fruits ,vegetables and floriculture 05
crops.
3 Criteria for sites selection, layout and planting methods, nursery 10
raising.
4 Commercial Varieties, improved varieties / hybrids, 05
5-6 sowing and planting times and methods, 10
seed rate and seed treatment for vegetable crops
7-8 Micro and Macro propagation methods in Horticultural crops. 15
Methods of irrigation and irrigation management, fertigation
9 Training and Pruning in Horticulture crops, plant growing structures 10
10-11 Crop coefficients, water requirements and critical stages, fertilizer 10
application,
12-13 harvesting, grading and packaging, post-harvest practices 10
14-15 Garden tools, management of orchard, extraction and storage of 10
vegetable seeds
16 Major pests and diseases and their management in horticultural 10
crops
100
Practical Exercises
Exercise No Title
1 Identification and description of Important fruit crops.
2 Identification and description of Important vegetable crops.
3 Identification and description of Important flower crops.
4 Study of different Garden tools.
5-6 Practices of training and pruning in Important fruit crops
7 Preparation of nursery bed.
8-9 Cultural operations for vegetable crops.
( sowing, layout, fertilizer application, mulching, irrigation and weed control)
10 Study of seed viability and germination test.
11 Seed extraction techniques.
12 Judging maturity time for harvesting of horticultural crops.
13-15 Identification of different pests and diseases and their control.
16 Visit to commercial greenhouse/ polyhouse
Suggested Readings
Text books :
Fundamental of horticulture by Edmond Et. al., Mc Grow Hill Book Company
Horticulture in India. Bansal. P.C. 2008. CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi.
Fruits of India - Tropical and Subtropical by T.K. Bose
Plant propagation principle & practices by Hartman H.T. and D.E. Kester, Prentice Hall
of India, N. Delhi
Vegetable crop in India by T.K. Bose and Som, Naya Prakash, Culcutta
Textbook on floriculture & landscaping by N. Roychowdhary& H.P. Mishra
Reference books
Introductory horticulture by Kumar N., Rajalaxmi Pub., Veepamodu (TN)
Complete gardening in India by Kunte Y.H. & K.S. Yawalkar, G.
Kasturirangan,Banglore
Production technology of fruit crops by Shanmugavelu K.G., Oxford & IBH, Delhi
Vegetable production in India by Chauhan D. V. S., Ramprasad& Sons, Agra
Floriculture in India by Mukhopadhya A., Lyal book depot, Ludhiana
Greenhouse construction & environment control by Pritam Chandra
Green house Operation and management by Nelson Paul V.
Diseases of Horticultural Crops. Arjunan, G., Karthikeyan, G, Dina Karan, D. and
Raguchander, T. 1999. AE Publications, Coimbatore.
Insect pest of South East Asia. by Dhaliwal and Arora.
Hand Book of Horticulture, by Chadha K.L. 2003, ICAR.
Postharvest management of Horticultural Crops. Saraswathy, S., T. L. Preethi, S.
Balasubramanyan, J. Suresh, N. Revathy and S. Natarajan. 2007. Agrobios Publishers,
Jodhpur.
Postharvest diseases of horticultural crops ,Sharma Neeta and MashkoorAlam
1997,International Book publishing Co.UP
